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The 2016 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2016 season.The 112th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Chicago Cubs and the American League (AL) champion Cleveland Indians, the first meeting of those franchises in postseason history.
In the World Series, the Cubs came back from a three-games-to-one deficit, winning the final three games. The last time a team came back from a three-games-to-one deficit to win the World Series was the Kansas City Royals in 1985. The Cubs were also the first team to win Games 6 and 7 on the road in a World Series since the Pittsburgh Pirates ...
Kyle Hendricks pitched 7 1/3 brilliant innings, while Wilson Contreras and Anthony Rizzo each homered as the Chicago Cubs won the pennant.
Joe Maddon, Aaron Boone and Cliff Floyd talk about the significance of the Cubs winning the 2016 World Series
The 2016 National League Championship Series was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball’s 2016 postseason in which the overall #1 seed Chicago Cubs defeated the third-seeded Los Angeles Dodgers for the National League (NL) pennant and the right to play in the 2016 World Series against the Cleveland Indians. As the Division Series ...
The Cleveland Indians moved within one victory of winning the World Series with a 7-2 rout of the Chicago Cubs on Saturday that gave them a 3-1 lead.
The Indians then took Game 4 by a 7–2 score to go up 3–1 in the series. In Game 5, the Cubs prevailed by a 3–2 score thanks to excellent pitching performances from Jon Lester and Aroldis Chapman to win their first home World Series game since 1945, sending the series back to Cleveland. In Game 6, the Cubs blew out the Indians, 9–3, to ...
LOS ANGELES — Back in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series at Chavez Ravine, Kirk Gibson hit one of the most dramatic homers in baseball history. ... Dodgers World Series roster: LA loses key pitcher ...